Disputes - international:
Greece and Turkey continue discussions to resolve their complex maritime, air, territorial, and boundary disputes in the Aegean Sea; Greece rejects the use of the name Macedonia or Republic of Macedonia; the mass migration of unemployed Albanians still remains a problem for developed countries, chiefly Greece and Italy

Refugees and internally displaced persons:refugees (country of origin):
13,714 (Syria) (2017)
stateless persons:
198 (2017)
note: 1,121,196 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-January 2019); as of the end of December 2018, an estimated 71,200 migrants and refugees were stranded in Greece since 2015-16; 50,215 migrant arrivals in 2018

Illicit drugs: a gateway to Europe for traffickers smuggling cannabis and heroin from the Middle East and Southwest Asia to the West and precursor chemicals to the East; some South American cocaine transits or is consumed in Greece; money laundering related to drug trafficking and organized crime

NOTE: 1) The information regarding Greece on this page is re-published from the 2019 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Greece Transnational Issues 2019 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Greece Transnational Issues 2019 should be addressed to the CIA.
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b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order